Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-06-09
THE EFFECTS OF COCA.
THAT STRANGE PRODUCT or THE
FORESTS or souTA AMERICA.

interesting Report from San salvador.
Peculiarities Of Chewing Cocn-Hygi.
enic Properties - Described BY .
Spanish Physician.
Consul Du Pre- transmits from San Sal
vador an interesting report upon the use
If coca in that country and It's effects
upon the inhabitants He says:
I have seen so much recently written
If coca in newspapers and In medical pub
lications that am impelled to report what
/ have learned Of the virtues Of this prod
net Of South American forests. With
leathern straps passing around their fore
heads to sustain burdens of 100 or 200
pounds on their backs, find these 1.-the,
slender natives trayersing plains and
mountains with greater CELEBRITY than the
mule / bestrida, which travels the live
long day six miles an hour. Native ply
sicians and those Of the schools OF Paris,
France, concur In assuring me that this
extraordinary capacity for endurance Of
toll and hunger Is to be ascribed to the
use BY these viageros Of coca. Recently
the medical profession in all countries has
been induced TO study the strange and
unique properties and effects Of coca. "a
peculiar force, producing nervous insensi-
bility, distinguishes coca when used as an
Rlknloid.
1T Is administered freely to infants,
and IS the chief intoxicant Of men and
women. Youths through many days are
tntrusted with the care Of valuable docks
Of nnnas, having no other sustenance
than that to be found In little leathern
purses containing coca and its compounds.
Indians chew it constantly Theirs, like
the maxillary movements Of tobacco
chewers, are incessant. From thirty to
fifty grains are consumed daily, serving,
unlike tobacco, both Us food and stimu-
liant. Without coca habitual chewers
cannot digest food; without 1t they are
unable to ascend Nountains with long,
rapid strides the livs.ong day. They Will
not toll without it; without il they enjoy
nothing; without it, practically, they cease
to live.
EFFECT OF CHEWING COCA.
''The immediate effect Of chewing coca
b perfect insensibility Of the interior of
the mouth. The immediate sensation is
that which one world experience when
finding that his mouth had become great
void in somebody else's head had q
Of molar tooth, and the eject was as
described. Indians constantly using coca
finally lose the senses of taste and smell
They can cat without repugnance most
disgusting food and drink most nauseating
draughts. The sensitiveness Of the mu-
cous membrane has been destroyed
When one goes further and swallows the
saliva impre:nnted with the Juice Of the
coca leaf delicious sensation Of warmth
and Of perfect blessedness entirely peryade
ones whole being, intellectual, nervous
and physical, and he is Tapped in the Joys
Of an elysium. In doses Of fifteen to sixty
grains coca produces delightful intoxica-
don.
Its Joys transcend in perfect blessed
ness all known human delights. al sensa-
Hon Of lightness first supervenes; the air
inhaled is zephyrs from angels wings;
there are wild imaginings and fantastic
hallucinations and gorgeous visions, and
then complete insensibitity. II Is intoxi-
cation without drowsiness, without con-
gestion Of the brain, involving sense of
perfect rest The law Of gravitati0n Is
suspended and the coquerO drifts bodily
among the stars. Meanwhile the muscu-
lar system Is stimulated to an extraordi-
nary degree; an intellectual excitement
supervenes, enabling the pos ,ssed' Of
this demon to watch and toll through
sleepless days and nights. no dreadful
headache or moro intnlerable nervous
prostration followA
4 MOST POTENT NERvnR
s'It Is the most potent nervine. almost,
st mans disposal Its hygienio proper
ties are disclosed from It's physiological
properties, says 4 Spanish ~. D., who
adds that IN hot infusion Il s The one use